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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kunhee Choi

state-of-the-art tool called CA4PRS (Construction Analysis for Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies), which has come into use because of its ability to analyze schedules, costs, and work zone traffic impacts. In some innovative states like California, CA4PRS has been widely used as the main decision-support tool from the initial planning and design stages to implement the most economical rehabilitation strategies for the projects. This paper presents schedule and cost saving aspects of utilizing CA4PRS used to achieve faster project completion with less traffic disruption as applied on three experimental long-life highway pavement rehabilitation projects in California. The implementation of CA4PRS on the

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ossama Elhadary

frequent causes of change were “Changed conditions” (“unbudgeted and unanticipated changes to baseline assumptions as they pertain to site conditions and weather) and “Programming Evolution” (change in/to the underlying basis of design as captured and identified in the baseline). This implies that more needs to done to identify risks that might derail the project and proactively plan responses to mitigate those risks. The fact that “ “Changed Conditions” seem to be a strong driver to change as shown by this research is understandable as in today’s complex IT projects and for a successful implementation many prerequisites and conditions need to be met and when they are not, change to projects become inevitable. In this

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sarai Hedges

USI G SIX SIGMA FOR CO TI UOUS IMPROVEME T I E GI EERI G TECH OLOGY Sarai Hedges, MS Virginia Westheider, MA sarai.hedges@uc.edu virginia.westheider@uc.edu PO Box 210207 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0207 Abstract: A grassroots team at the College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, formed to use Six-Sigma methodology, an industry familiar process, to develop an improved assessment plan that is responsive to the ABET accreditation requirements. Using Six Sigma in the evaluation process fits nicely with the engineering technology programs and was

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sandeep Dilwali

. Students do not know how to plan their education to be able to get into these fields, including 1. which are the schools which offer these programs 2. what does it cost to do education for these fields 3. what courses should be done at high school to be well prepared for pursuing college education leading to these fields 4. what is the profile of a student who can be successful in college education in these fields(c) Curriculum related aspects. Many STEM related disciplines have a very structured curriculum, in which one course feeds into another. Effectively many programs require four years from the time they begin, Students who do not begin their college education initially

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sofia M. Vidalis; Joseph J. Cecere

major.IntroductionPartnership between an Educational Institution and Secondary Schools is not a new concept infostering learning among students. There are many universities that work closely with highschools to develop a relationship to help fit students’ needs. Universities and high schoolstraditionally maintained collaborations by including student job shadowing, outreach activities,faculty exchanges, and recruiting. The purpose of these partnerships is to expose high schoolstudents to the major so they can plan ahead to meet the needs of industries, governments,national laboratories, and the training need. The goal of any university engineering technology curriculum is to provide theinformation and skills so each student so they can be successful in their

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert M. Brooks; Amithraj Amavasai

value was 2.7. The improvement of the debates group was statistically significant at an alpha value of 0.05. The result of t test confirmed that debates are a powerful tool in effectively engaging the students. The authors plan to extend the application of the debates concept to three other courses over the next three years.IntroductionSchools, colleges, and universities are increasingly turning to the assessment of learningoutcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. Debates could be used as an effectivetool for the assessment of educational objectives.MethodologyIn the Fall 06 semester, debates were used as a tool for learning the subject in an EnvironmentalScience course, C010. The students were

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Robert M. Brooks

. In a two-tailed t test the calculated t value was 6.5. The improvement of the Critical Thinking Issues group was statistically significant at an alpha value of 0.05. The result of t test confirmed that the Critical Thinking Issues are a powerful tool in learning the environmental science subject. The authors plan to extend the application of the Critical Thinking Issues concept to four other courses over the next four years.IntroductionThe students must do more than simply identify and discuss environmental problems andsolutions. The first and the most important step is to know what science is and is not. Then theinstructor should facilitate the process of developing critical thinking skills in the students

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Neil J. Hutzler; Joanne S. Chadde; David Heil; William E. Kelly

University, Foundation for Family Science and the American Society for Engineering Education.Key words: STEM, education, engineering, elementary school, parents, family, technicalliteracy.IntroductionEnrollment in many engineering fields is static or declining and the number of science andengineering graduate students in the U.S. has continued to fall since 1993. However,demand for scientists and engineers is growing steadily, but the US is unable to meet thatdemand. The resulting shortage of technically skilled employees threatens nationaleconomic and technological competitivenessEfforts must be made to educate and inspire students to pursue STEM careers. A recentNational Academy of Engineering plan, “Taking Action Together: Developing aational

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Orla LoPiccolo

appliances create, the buildings orientation to the sun for winter solar gain and the thermal storage capacity of certain building materials. South-facing windows can be screened/shaded in the summer to reduce solar heat gain. The architect can plan for enough thermal storage mass in a house by specifying tile floors, finished concrete slabs, concrete or granite countertops, stone fireplace surrounds, adobe walls or earthen plaster. The Passive House Institute US recommends 5-6 thermal storage surfaces per room for optimal effect. [12] 5. Heat Recovery Ventilation/Heat Exchanger: The key to indoor comfort in passive homes is a central ventilation system that is widely used in Europe but still relatively unknown

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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R. Radharamanan; Jeng-Nan Juang

Engineering, 2nd Edition, Wiley & Sons, 1996.[3] Carnegie Mellon, CMMI Model V1.2, Software Engineering Institute, 2006.[4] Jeffrey, R.C., Probability and the Art of Judgment, Cambridge University Press, 1992.[5] 580 SMXS Technical Staff, 580th SMXS Squadron Defined Software Process, 580 SMXS, August 2004.[6] 580 SMXS Technical Staff, Software Quality Assurance Plan V1.2, 580 SMXS, February 2007.[7] 580 SMXS Flight D Technical Staff, MC-130H Software Procedure Manual V1.1, 580 SMXS, January 2007.[8] 580 SMXS Flight D Technical Staff, Software Development Plan for the MC-130H Combat Talon II Operational Flight Program V3.0, 580 SMXS, January 2007.[9] 580 SMXS

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Ali Daneshmandnia

all time. Following are summary of few different measures that I think willimpact how we can recover effectively with no loss of data if a human error or equipment failurecaused one or more server in our LAN to malfunction or to shut down: - A through plan which identifies all mission critical application servers and the bulk of information that are updated constantly. The plan should be developed in a way that it addresses servers based on the balk of data and frequency of the server update. Some servers such as data base are constantly being updated while other servers such as DHCP may not get updated constantly. - Multiple solutions should be implemented such as local and remote

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Carl A. Erikson

addresses all safety and maintenance concerns, clearly describes systematic procedures, and provides a user-friendly list of input variables with instructions for dealing with them. 4] Create a business plan for implementation of community biodiesel reaction facilities both here in the USA and overseas. 5] Minimize waste by managing glycerin and other biodiesel side streams.IPC students are also involved in developing a quality control lab as part of the 3 year DOEgrant . Five key tests associated with ASTM D6751 quality standard for biodiesel have beenidentified for this lab. These tests include: ASTM D 93 Standard Test Methods for Flash Pointby Penksy-Martens Closed Cup Tester, ASTM D 2709 Standard Test

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

studentperformance and instruction.Future StudiesThe author’s plan to extend this study to look at individual faculty and their performance overtime, the overall performance of faculty teaching a given course, and difference in faculty 4performance, as reflected by the method presented in this paper, for various areas of instruction(sciences, humanities etc.). 1. Annual Conference, ASEE, Austin, TX, 2009, C 2009-1377: CIVIL E GI EERI G COURSES TAUGHT WITH I DIVIDUALIZED STUDE T ASSIG ME TS Ahmet Zeytinci, University of the District of Columbia Philip Brach, University of the District of Columbia © American 2. ABET Accreditation Policy & Procedure Manual, 2009-2010, section II.D.1.c

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Anthony Manno; Kamal Shahrabi

are available. Podcasts can be on virtually any topicimaginable and traditional media companies are now in the game by distributing their shows viapodcasts. This is a boon to consumers since now they don’t have to plan their day aroundprograms they like. They can now listen to or watch their programs when the person is available.Universities are also encouraging their professors to post their lectures as podcasts or webcasts.Webcasts are also being used as webinars to give a presentation on the latest technology that acompany will be using. This helps educate their potential customers on the newest technologiesand it allows them to pitch their products at the same time. It gives companies a much widerdistribution than they would have been

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Kevin Dahm; Thomas Merrill; William Riddell

product idea.Each proposal includes a patent search, a description of the invention and development plan, anda budget. The director of the RUVF works with students to refine each proposal before and aftersubmission. Funding up to $2500 per team is awarded each semester. Teams can win severalawards to support their ideas through multiple semesters.IV. Mapping Entrepreneurship onto the Engineering Clinic SequenceThe Venture Capital Program described in section III has existed for over 10 years but relativelyfew students have taken advantage of it. In the past two years, the Sophomore EngineeringClinic instructors have implemented new assignments intended to promote entrepreneurship.With these new assignments, it is possible for a student

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Mark N. Valesey; Teresa L. Noto

use.A discussion related to the need for alternative vehicle education for engineering,engineering technology, technician and consumer education will also beaddressed.A Little HistoryThe first electric car was a model was developed in 1828 in Hungary. In the1830’s a crude electric car was put together in Scotland by Robert Anderson,however, there were no surviving pictures, plans or vehicles for the unit. [3]The Parker electric vehicle was developed in London in 1884, and may have beenthe first electric car ready for full-scale production. It is thought that its inventor,Thomas Parker, may have actually built it to combat London’s growing smokeand pollution.Jacob Lohner & Co in Vienna, Austria produced electric cars from 1898 to 1906.Dr

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Sunghoon Jang; Kenneth Markowitz; Hong Li

) spectroscopy, mid infrared (MIR)spectroscopy, radio wave impedance, optical rotation of polarized light, fluid extraction from theskin, and glucose sensing contact lens with fluorescence detection. Although recent advances inbasic research and clinical applications in the noninvasive glucose monitoring are veryencouraging for the future of this field, we concluded the non-invasive glucose sensingtechniques are still far from satisfying requirements for clinical use. Therefore, it is necessary todevelop a new technique satisfying the criteria such as accuracy, low cost, simplicity in samplingand testing, portability, and safety in use [3, 4].Plan of Study and MethodologyThe first precision optical polarimeter using the Faraday effect was introduced by

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Harvey I. Lyons

an engineering technology student. Finally, the writer has recently researched and published articles on the future practices in Engineering Technology. Some of the research included contacts with industrial sources to learn what they recommend – and expect – from our ET programs in the near future. Their recommendations help us to plan and develop our ET programs more effectively for more successful partnerships. KEY WORDS: Academia, Industry, Collaboration, Engineering Technology, DesignI TRODUCTIOThe desired end product of an undergraduate engineering technology program is quality rawmaterial for industry. Therefore we have to address the needs of the industrial sector and providean

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Muhammad M. Baig; Rafiqul Islam

careers as well as the plans and suggestions to overcome those problems. The course outline along with laboratory experiments will also be discussed.Keywords: Problems and Solutions for PIC MicrocontrollerIntroduction At Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Natchitoches, we inducted a one-semester course on microcontrollers, obviously, for a multiple of reasons, for our undergraduatestudents doing majors in ‘Electronic Engineering Technology (EET)’. At the very start of thisventure, we found out that we were on a head-on-collision course to a number of challenging andmulti-faced problems. This was quite disappointing. But we pursued on to develop a reasonablygood course and our consistent efforts in doing-so ultimately

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participationin a sports-like, science and engineering-based robotics competition. Villanova is also aparticipant for GEAR UP, a teacher training program to increase teacher and studentunderstanding of math subjects and to help them use robotics to accomplish their math goals.To provide educational and research experiences to high school students, an exploratory (pilot)project on swarm robotics was initiated in Summer 2008 in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Villanova University, Villanova, PA with a team of two high school students anda senior Villanova Mechanical Engineering undergraduate under the supervision of two Facultymembers. The plan was to test the

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jeanne Radigan

intern and hold them accountable for projectdeadlines. Training should be provided and only projects that are accomplishable should beassigned to the intern. Successful internships involve the intern in the project planning stage andexplain the rationale behind each task assigned to the intern [29]. The university must have a contact point for the employer. Most often a faculty memberhas the primary management responsibility, but some schools have an internship director orplacement officer in charge of overseeing the program. Faculty are compensated in a variety ofways for managing interns, with 31% of them awarded teaching load credit for managing theprogram, 23% with extra pay and 13% with course load reduction. 28% of faculty